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Jenna Park

@jennapark.bsky.social

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Recovering UX/product designer. Artist, writer, mom, Gen X New Yorker. Mostly here for politics. Blogging since 2000, I now write a weekly newsletter at jennapark.substack.com

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · Nov 14

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

We need to get back to reading and critical thinking

Because 2024 feels different from 2016.

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12h

This will date me, but I just remembered the Columbia House music clubs—12 hits for a penny!

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 12h

As always, Jenna Park, on point. Follow her if you aren't yet. And then subscribe to her newsletter! She's terrific.

Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12h

We used to own things, but subscribe to them instead.
This model of convenience over ownership benefits corporations who own our data. What’s insidious about a subscription society is the marketing of an illusion of infinite choice, but how much convenience are you willing to trade for dependence?

America is one big subscription service

We used to own things, but now we subscribe to them instead.

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12h

being siphoned off by billionaires

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12h

America is one big subscription service

We used to own things, but now we subscribe to them instead.

open.substack.com

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 16h

Please donate to your local food bank.
It's really unfathomable that in a few days time, SNAP benefits will run out and millions to go hungry. This government doesn't take care of its own, so what is left to do but for communities to look out for each other?

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 11d

🙏🫶 I hadn't logged on here in over a month! As usual, a struggle to balance how much of this firehose to take in 😕

Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12d

exactly

Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 12d

"Kids do stupid things."
No JD. Those weren't kids in that chat. And most kids I know don't say or text vile racist shit.
Know what else? No one is surprised. This just exposes them for what we've already known.
But go ahead and threaten universities over antisemitism. It never was about that.

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's all a distraction from those files

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · Sep 11

The fact that an influencer gets the American flag flown at half-staff while an elected government official does not is a pretty accurate snapshot of America right now.

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm not shedding any tears for this guy but we don't need an American martyr for the conservative right. Also, feel for the students who witnessed this.

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Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is an absolute shit show of a day in America. I don't wish gun violence on anyone, not even that guy. Who do we want to be as a country? Not this.

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